Introduction to AIX

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Introduction to AIX

Course Summary

Description

This course provides a detailed introduction to AIX. It is designed for those who need a robust understanding of AIX.

Objectives

After taking this course, students will be able to:  Organize and protect your own file and directory structure.  Create and modify files using the vi editor.  Select lines from files using the grep command and RE metacharacters.  Direct file input and output from/to the proper file or process using redirection and pipes.  Control the execution of foreground and background jobs.  Use shell command line features such as filename generation wildcards to perform work in an efficient manner.  Tailor the interactive environment by using aliases and variables established in .profile and the ksh ENV file.

Topics

 Introductory Concepts and Simple Commands  File System  File Processing Commands  vi Editor  Re Metacharacters with grep, pg, and vi  Shell Features Requested on the Command Line  Shell Environment  Korn Shell Features

Audience

This course is designed for technical and non-technical personnel, including technical managers, programmers, and system and network administrators.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Duration

Three days

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"Charting the Course ...

... to Your Success!"

Introduction to AIX

Course Outline

I. Introductory Concepts and Simple Commands A. Login and logoff, passwd, ignoreeof B. Command line format C. Interrupt characters D. Metacharacters and backslash, single and double quotes E. date, who, echo, ls, banner, cal, man

II. File System A. File system structure B. Types of AIX files: ordinary, special, directory, links C. Full and relative pathnames D. pwd, ls options -lpadiR, cd E. HOME directory F. File permission modes, chmod, umask G. mkdir, rmdir, rm, mv, cp

III. File Processing Commands A. cat, more, nl, wc, grep, sort, cut, tr

IV. vi Editor

V. Re Metacharacters with grep, pg, and vi

VI. Shell Features Requested on the Command Line A. Redirection of standard input, standard output, and standard error B. Pipelines C. Process and job control: ps, jobs, kill, wait, nohup, sleep, fg, and bg D. Filename generation wildcards with * ? [ ] [! ] and dot files

VII. Shell Environment A. Environment variables: TERM, HOME, PATH, LOGNAME, USER, PS1, PS2 B. set and env C. profile and the ksh ENV file

VIII. Korn Shell Features A. Command history, editing, and re-execution B. Options such as ignoreeof and vi C. Aliases